Grover Norquist

Montana cut income tax rates. Critics predicted less revenue. Instead? Income tax revenue more than doubled. Lower rates. More growth. More jobs. More taxpayers. That's how pro-growth tax reform works. mountainstatespolicy.org/post/analysis-…

When I took over in Britain the top rate of tax on earned income was 83%. The top rate of tax on investment income was 98% ... We had to take away many of the regulations: There were controls on prices, controls on incomes, controls on dividends, controls on foreign exchange—all of this and the top rate of tax went within the first 6 weeks.

@1991Wolfpack Yes But the phase down will require another vote to get to zero Five states require no additional votes

Excellent information but one small correction. North Carolina is moving towards no income tax in spite of the Governor. Governor Stein is a classic tax and spend liberal but has limited powers, the North Carolina General Assembly led by Republicans has almost all of the power and is committed to lower taxes.

There are eight states with no state income tax: Alaska, New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, South Dakota, Wyoming and Nevada. There are five that have voted to phase their income tax to zero: South Carolina, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia. Another nine have Governor’s publicly committed to getting to zero and have taken steps to do so: Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Utah, Indiana and Iowa

It was a pleasure to meet with Grover G. Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, and Christopher Butler, Executive Director. We had an excellent discussion on deregulation, pro-growth reform, and the importance of limiting unnecessary government intervention to unleash innovation and expand economic opportunity. They expressed strong admiration for the transformational agenda being advanced by President Javier Milei and recalled the 2024 Ronald Reagan Legacy Award, which Grover Norquist personally presented to President Milei in recognition of his leadership in advancing freedom, reducing the size of government, cutting bureaucracy, and pursuing bold tax reform. Argentina is proud to deepen its engagement with partners who share our commitment to economic freedom, limited government, and growth. 🇦🇷🇺🇸 @JMilei @GroverNorquist @ARGinUSA

Dems convinced Bush Sr. to go along with their tax increase in 1991. Did they thank him for it? No! -they attacked him in the 1992 election for going along with their tax increase -Bill Clinton ran ads about it -they still accused him of wanting to “cut taxes for the rich” when he literally just raised taxes on the rich at Dems’ request.

The indomitable Missouri Scout showing that Amendment 5 is clearly popular with mid-Missouri Republicans. Of course it is. They’re Republicans. And Republicans support eliminating taxes. #YesOn5 #AxTheTax #MOLeg

2015: Trump recalls the Bush “read my lips” broken tax promise.

Sweden got rich under laissez-faire and nearly wrecked itself trying to forget it. Between 1870 and 1970, Sweden ran one of the freest economies in Europe: low taxes, open trade, sound money, and entrepreneurs like the Wallenbergs and Ingvar Kamprad building world-class firms. By 1970 Sweden ranked fourth in OECD per capita income. Then the social democrats decided prosperity was automatic and started spending it. You know what happened next if you understand incentives. Government spending blew past 60 percent of GDP by the late 1980s. Marginal tax rates crossed 85 percent. In 1976 Astrid Lindgren, the children's author, calculated her effective marginal rate at 102 percent and wrote a satirical fairy tale about it in Expressen. She paid the state more than she earned. Not a single new net private-sector job appeared between 1950 and 1990. Every job added came from the public payroll. Capital fled, IKEA's ownership moved offshore, and by 1993 Sweden had slid to roughly 14th in the OECD income rankings. The 1991-93 crisis forced honesty. The krona collapsed, interest rates briefly hit 500 percent, and the political class ran out of other people's money in real time. What followed was one of the sharpest market-oriented turnarounds in modern history. Carl Bildt's government introduced universal school vouchers in 1992, letting for-profit schools compete for every student. Sweden partially privatized pensions in 1998 with individual investment accounts. It deregulated taxis, rail, telecom, postal services, and electricity. It abolished the inheritance tax in 2004 and the wealth tax in 2007. Corporate tax fell from 52 percent to 20.6 percent. Spending dropped nearly 20 points of GDP. Notice what you never hear from the "democratic socialism" crowd: Sweden's welfare state produced stagnation. Its recovery came from cutting, privatizing, and deregulating. Bernie Sanders praises a country that killed its estate tax while he campaigns to raise yours. The lesson free market economists have taught for a century holds here perfectly. Wealth comes from capital accumulation and voluntary exchange. Redistribution consumes it. Sweden ran the experiment twice, in both directions, on live television. The Swedes learned. The question is whether you will before your own government runs the same experiment.

The cost of government doesn't end when you pay your taxes. @KentatCEI, President & CEO of @ceidotorg, joined me on the latest episode of the Leave Us Alone podcast to discuss how federal regulations quietly raise the cost of housing, banking, transportation, and everyday goods. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=7oBdwn…

Don’t believe the headlines — climate change isn’t killing your breakfast. Global food production is rising, real prices are falling, and daily calories per person have jumped from less than 2,200 to more than 2,900 since 1961. My new op-ed in LA Times: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Most Democrats couldn't make it to our hearing on government fraud. The empty chairs made their priorities pretty clear. Hard to claim you're fighting waste when you don't even show up.

It took a congressional investigation, a 27-state attorneys general objection, and a formal ethics complaint to get the Federal Judicial Center to pull a biased “climate science” chapter from its judges’ reference manual. It took a Senate hearing to get Justice Elena Kagan to admit she endorsed that chapter without reading a word of it—and that she still hasn’t. Why did Justice Kagan endorse something she didn’t read?

Every single Republican in NH, all 221 of them, votes better than every single Democrat. Tough to look at data like this and say both parties are the same.

“Freedom is important in order that all the different individuals can make full use of the particular circumstances of which only they know.” — Friedrich Hayek

In 1969, as America debated whether to end the military draft, a US Army general told a presidential commission he did not want to command an army of mercenaries. Milton Friedman answered him: "General, would you rather command an army of slaves?" 🧵

The cost of government doesn't end when you pay your taxes. @KentatCEI, President & CEO of @ceidotorg, joined me on the latest episode of the Leave Us Alone podcast to discuss how federal regulations quietly raise the cost of housing, banking, transportation, and everyday goods. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=7oBdwn…

The average American household bears more than $16,000 a year in regulatory costs, according to @ceidotorg. @GroverNorquist and @KentatCEI explain why federal regulations function like a hidden tax. Watch the latest Leave Us Alone podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=7oBdwn…

You've paid your taxes. Government isn't finished. I sat down with @KentatCEI, President & CEO of @ceidotorg, to discuss how federal regulations quietly raise the cost of nearly everything Americans buy. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=7oBdwn…

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